I am a PhD Candidate at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security in Berlin. I use computational methods to study global authoritarianism, human rights advocacy, and political communication on social media. In my dissertation entitled Platformed Power Plays: Authoritarian Adaptations in Foreign Social Media Spaces, I focus on how high-capacity authoritarian regimes and their supporters can use social media to exert their influence and limit dissenting voices—even in settings where their governments do not have direct control over platform governance.

In a past life, I was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia and happened to get a BSc in Economics and Asian Studies from Tulane University after living in New Orleans for four years.